From the Underground of Sinnoh to the Contest Halls of Hoenn, Pokemon has tons of extra features to offer. Let's take a look at every generation's best ones. Follow me on Twitter! / jprpt98 Join my Discord server! / discord
Z-Moves. It is my favorite gimmick because having a finishing move to just obliterate your opponents pokemon is incredible. Too bad It was removed in Gen 8. Dynamax is good too so I’m not that mad.
Today's players will also never know how great not having Fairy-types was and how satisfying it is to hit a Clefable with a super effective fighting move
@FitPeePee I would say that is a bold prejudice but I can kinda see where you are coming from.I mean the expectations i had for Gen 8 weren't grand but swsh are just too bland
Yeah. Having unlimited TM's on a Pokemon and not have to worry to buy that costs alot or look another one was an huge big deal. Now I know some say it takes away the challenge. But I disagree. It makes the the entire game more serviceable.
Well true, but I feel the ones he mentioned were more visible changes to most of the current viewers who were probably 8 year olds back then and never really knew/implemented held items strategically when it was an added feature. Although if anyone rn reruns a play through ig they'd be much more grateful for that than egg hatching haha
Contests are cool, but double battles and abilities are definitely far more important for adding depth to the game. (A cool spinoff could focus on contests and not the gym challenge like what May and Dawn do in the anime)
@@jasonreed7522Honestly I could imagine that a bit like Nintendogs meets a very fleshed out PokeAmi.. Like you can get out and catch Pokemon and then raise them.. teach them moves and maybe certain moves can combo with each other.. And you can wash and feed them and stuff like that.
I remember really enjoying double battles and weather starting in gen 3, it really felt like you were really out in the elements rather than walking through different nature themed hallways
Small thing, but I feel like the Unova section should have mentioned all the alternate encounter methods. It added a ton of variety into what you could find and was often really fun to track down. Shaking grass, ripple spots, and ESPECIALLY Hidden Grottos. Honestly, I liked that way of finding a more varied and powerful selection of Pokemon more than I like Max Raid Battles and the like
I liked how some of the Pokémon in Unova were pseudo version exclusives with the shaking spots. ie Sawk and Throh. You had Sawk in Black in normal grass and Throh in White, and with the shaking spots you had a 5% encounter chance for the opposite one alongside the super common 95% Audino. They also usually had rare Pokémon and evolved forms of the normal grass Pokémon in the area, which was also really cool
Jacob. I also liked how experience points are doubled or more than what they were from previous ones so it makes grinding less of an chore. Plus with Audino and items like Lucky Egg or anything that doubles more is awesome.
Tbh, when i first played oras, evrytime i play any ither pokemon game even romhacks, i just get disappointed as i have no intention at all in breeding pokemon just to get slightly better stats and moves.
Reusable Tms in Gen 5 and Megas in Gen 6 are really weird features to not even mention in the video at all, especially when you ended up mentioning Seasons in 5 given how ultimately shallow that feature felt in the end imo...
Out of all these features, I think there's a three way tie between Abilities, the Physical-Special split and everything going on with the bottom screen in gen 6. I really can't see which ones better than the other. The first 2 were very helpful in giving Pomemon usage and identity while the latter is just so good man, why did they get rid of it.
Destiny Knot breeding is one of my absolute favorite additions to Pokemon over the years. It turned IV breeding from an impossible chore to a.... possible chore, I guess. Also shoutout to battle styles, super contests, totem stickers, and Z-Splash.
DexNav is one of the biggest for me. Not only did the ability to get a Pokémon with different moves and abilities make catching wayyy more dynamic of an experience, but the display of all available Pokémon in the area with the silhouettes filled out as you caught them made Dex completion not only easier, but something I felt more compelled to do; leaving an area but then realizing I only had one more to catch there made me want to stick around and finish it. Really wish this would return.
I really enjoyed the Pokémon world tournament, a tournament where you can battle every single gym leader and champion (minus Iris which is kinda dumb) and notable trainer? That’s insane there was even a Japanese event where you could battle ash’s rivals from best wishes. C’mon you have to admit that’s pretty cool
Hoard battles and wonder trade were my favorite parts of Gen 6. I'd get weak pokemon, train them in hoards to evolve/EV train some and give them good tms I had and send them back out. I like to think some of those gyrados, pikachu, and gardevoir helped someone's wonderlocke run
You forgot about one of the biggest things Gen 5 gave to the franchise: Hidden Abilities. Also reusable TMs, Join Avenue, Triple Battles, Rotation Battles and Pokémon World Tournament. The Memory Link and Seasons can't be the best things someone can remember about B/W(2).
My favorite change was the day/night cycle! It really made the games feel more immersive! Nothing says “realistic” like Hoenn’s instrumentals and vibrant environments when you’re playing at 10pm lol
Easy: Gen 2: Special Attack & Defense were separated, and they added items. Gen 3: abilities. Gen 4: Physical / Special split. Gen 5: Hidden Abilities. Gen 6: Mega Evolution (they HAVE to bring this back. Gen 7: nothing. Gen 8: nothing.
Unova has alot more best features than just Seasons & Memory Link ( Though they were cool. Don't get me wrong. ). U also have darker grass to find 2 or more the same or different Pokemons, shaking grass, rippling water or digging caves for a encounter of an rare or powerful Pokemon, Hidden Grotto to find an Pokemon with an Hidden Ability, an Hidden Ability itself and best of all; unlimited TM's. I also like the changes of experience points to where u get alot more points and plus with Audino and items like Lucky Egg or something else that doubles or triples your experience points, u can level up your Pokemons way faster now. Also u forgot to mentioned that Alola replaced HM'S for an Poke Ride. That is one of the best changes ever done for Pokemon. No longer we have to worry on having 2 or 3 Pokemon during the dirty work that u may or may not want as your main party member.
HMs are cool, using your party to navigate the world, but when they almost universally suck in battle (rock smash is 20 base power, but atleast surf, fly, and strength are 80+ base power) you end up with HM slaves wasting valuable party space. I definitely like the new system better where you still unlock the abilities but have a summon HM user menu instead. (Ride pokemon are cool, but some of the animations are questionable, like lots of extra safety harnesses or being cradled by a machamp)
Something that I really wish you mentioned for Gen 2 was battle facilities. Pokémon Crystal introduced the Battle Tower, a special facility where you can battle waves of tough trainers with a proper competitive edge. With the sole exception of the Let’s Go games, this feature has been in every single mainline game since in some way, shape or form, and paved the way for the ever-popular Battle Frontier in Emerald and Platinum.
Actual best/most important two features in my opinion I'd make this list by limiting it to top 3 new features in each gen personally. gen 2. 1) Held items and 2) breeding. 3) Shinies Shinies are cool bet held items are way more important overall! For third gen 1) Double battles tied with 2) Abilities. 3) Natures (are important but I'd defiantly say Double battles are even more important.) fifth gen hand down #1 is unbreaking TM's!
2:15 I actually bred once during the story. In Sun I just could no longer justify to have a Mareanie without Merciless on my team after a while. And catching one is hard enough by itself, so I bred to get a Mareanie with Merciless. Absolutely worth the time. 9:01 Two other amazing features Unova added: A passive Item Finder, activate it and it will "slumber" on the bottom screen until it detects an item, great. And a feature Gen "5.2" added specifically: The automatic prompt that informs you that your Repel just ran out immediately asks you whether you want to use another one. (Provided you have another one.) 11:09 At least Galar had Regional Variants of non-Kanto Pokémon at all and Legends Arceus seems to go further into that direction as well. Albeit its a little unsettling to know that all these hisuian forms are simply extinct in modern Sinnoh...
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And I thought Merciless was trash on Mareanie.....I thought Regenarator was better
I bred ice ball onto an Alolan Sandshrew (i like both ice and steel types and it annoys me that Alolan Sandshrew is locked so late in the game you have to breed a baby one to access half of its levelup learnset. Especially problematic when it has like 20 base spec attack and it doesn't get a physical ice move until evolution.)
Am I the only one that felt free access PC kinda breaks the main story? Before you had a roster of Pokemon you need to carry from Town A to Town B and the challenge is you need to survive between them. Save function is more like a quick save hence why that system works for Pokemon and not for some other RPGs. Now you can technically not black out by keeping capturing Pokemon in the routes and constantly making your party full.
@@zjzr08 na. Going to the PC was more tedious than anything else. There's nothing stopping you as a player from not using it remotely. It's a nice quality of life upgrade that's entirely optional to use.
@@mhz3317 I'm just baffled on things that seem to just be annoyance to RPGs seen as tedium (like grinding, which I think is fine in Pokemon as it doesn't need you to grind too much) like why play RPGs if trying to survive from one point to another is too much, hehe. And yes it is optional, but it's the same as Exp Candies, sure they're optional, but they're there so why not use them? I feel good game design had to make players avoid temptation that breaks the game, unless the difficulty setting allows that.
@@zjzr08 I honestly cannot understand where you are going with this. *"Before you had a roster of Pokemon you need to carry from Town A to Town B..."* And you could still double back the Town A if you wanted to heal and/or switch Pokemon. Heck, at around the middle point of every Pokemon game you get access to Fly (one of the very few HMs that is still good in-battle) that lets you do just that instantly. Wouldn't Fly be broken as well?. *"Save function is more like a quick save hence why that system works for Pokemon and not for some other RPGs."* How is it the same to a quick save when you can save anywhere and said save doesn't get deleted the second you load it (a calling card of quick saving)?. *"Now you can technically not black out by keeping capturing Pokemon in the routes and constantly making your party full."* But none of those Pokemon will be on-par with those you had prior because they lack IVs/EVs and have a terrible moveset. This also lasts as long as you have Pokeballs. *"like grinding, which I think is fine in Pokemon as it doesn't need you to grind too much"* Even a little bit is bad in my opinion, after all, grinding is boring. *"...like why play RPGs if trying to survive from one point to another is too much,..."* Oh, I don't know, maybe the characters, Pokemon, story, lore, sense of adventure, between many others? There are more reasons than one to play an RPG, nay, any video game. *"but they're there so why not use them?"* Maybe because they break the game? However, they still exist because of people like me that loathe grinding and that that has been their main problem when it comes to accessing the competitive scene. In other words, thy want to bridge both sides of the fanbase by making it easier for the casuals. *"I feel good game design had to make players avoid temptation that breaks the game,..."* Nope, it is not the developers job to control what the players do in their games.
@@toumabyakuya How do you not get it? Sure you can technically get back to Town A if you're in danger of blacking out, but you have to do that journey from that point again. Fly can only access places you already went to, which is reasonable for that function as you already finished that Point A to B journey. Also I meant by quick save is like in emulators, where it takes a point in the game and saves it even if it isn't part of the game's save function (forgot the name of what it's called, so I used the term quick save).
Seasons were cool, but I noticed that if you playthrough a game normally, you can typically clear it within the span of a couple of weeks, meaning you only get to experience one or two seasons at most. Also you missed the addition of Ride Pokémon (i.e. the removal of HMs) in your list for gen 7.
Can you do a worst features vid if you haven't done so already, would be cool. Also I preferred when you split content like this into 2 vids with good & bad for each Gen, was more clear
IMO (only things that stayed for good): 2 Breeding 3 Double battles 4 Stat split 5 TMs 6 Customisation 7 Deleted HMs 8 Hard to say yet, but I'm gonna go with overall style of PLA
Since the physical special split was here I think it worth mentioning the gen 2 complete overhaul of battle system I'll just list 3 of many changes and thats: special spit (gen 1 special was one making terrors like tank chansey) new types and completely remade crit formula.
Wait, in Gen 3 they did introduce tha max 2 abilities per species...some had one and some had 2 like Sturdy or Rock Head for Geodude's line, utilizing 0 or 1 to choose which ability it has.
For XY I also have to say : I think the roller blades are not only cool but necessary to 3D pokémon games. While 2D pokémon games can easily cheat to make you match a speed that feel comfortable, 3D games have to make your character slower, to match the animations. That's where the roller blades comes, which is a more maneuvrable version of the bicycle, that is directly tied to a button and so have the game fully designed around the fact that you can change between both options without using your menu. Pokémon just feel to slow for me now the roller blades are gone.
Additionally, in Bdsp (not Sure if SWSH have the same) but when you talk to the daycare lady you don’t have to go all the way to the pc to change your Pokémon
Some early artwork of pokemon red and green and the pokemon anime create the theory that breeding was planned for generation 1 but scrapped due to technical limitations
Rather than the mantine surf, the best mechanic added in Gen7 was definitely the ride pokemon. Forcing you to carry an MO slave or taking an attack slot is not "difficulty", is just hindrance and a waste of the player's time when exploring
For me the best feature ever added was Pokémon, being able to fuss, love and play with my Pokémon after a hard-won battle was just the best! Then they went and ruined it by turning it into a weird camp-curry-cookout in Sword and Shield 😭😭😭 Thanks for the new vid JPRPokéTrainer 💙🐱💙
Every time a new Pokémon or form has been revealed, their possible abilities have been included on their page on the official pokemon website. None of the Hisuian forms have the abilities included, meaning they might have been removed from Legends.
@@JoshusBarber As I said Legends are more like side-games that aren't connected to the mainline that it feels interesting if they just experiment with it.
Look JPR you got sneasil all wrong. The point of it’s typing was defense not offense. Sneasil came when dark types were new and it’s point was as a hard counter to psychic types which at the time were mostly special focused. It’s ice typing just gave it more weaknesses to balance out it being a fast psychic killer. Pokémon were a tad more even back then because of stuff like this where the trade off for a psychic immune attacker who could easily sweep had a major weakness to fighting type attacks
You forgot unlimited TMs in Gen V and removing HMs in Gen VII. No more dithering about that one copy of Earthquake or having to burden anyone on your team with the cursed move Cut ever again.
Yeah. I am surprised he didn't mentioned that. I think it happens twice when he forgets those changes during his review. And I was like " How did u forget about this? ". Those are well life quality changes. I also liked what they did with the experience points. It's worth alot more depending on the levels and combined with Audino and items like Lucky Egg and such to where u can double or triple, it can level up Pokemons way faster.
@@jaretco6423 I actually found the xp thing very annoying back in Gen5 since it also gave you much less xp if you were overleveled, and I usually was. They dialed that down in gen6 to a manageable level but then broke whatever challenge the games had left with the new Exp. Share so I'm quite conflicted about the experience gain in general
Houndo. I didn't find XP thing in Gen. 5 that annoying. I thought it was an major upgrade so it makes XP more worth an while. It's better than how Gen. 2 or 4 handles it since they're very low with XP and u have to do some serious heavy grinding in the last halve before facing the Pokemon League. Even with the VS. Seeker.
@@jaretco6423 I agree it was generally better for the usual playthrough, especially how it (and the easy access to lucky egg) made it much more viable to add or replace the members of your party later in the game. What I did find annoying, though was the fact that the overleveling penalty was very hard on top of some Pokemon only evolving at much higher levels than in previous generations (Braviary/Mandibuzz at 54, Hydreigon at 64, Volcarona at 59 as the worst examples) when the only repeatable Pokemon you could encounter were at levels 37-42 pre-League and 50-60 post-League, while not being of the sorts that actually give that much XP besides Audino.
Houndo. Ah. I see your point and I understand. But honestly, it didn't really bother me all that much. It is possible to evolved some Pokemons like Mandibuzz, Braviary or Bisharp before the League. I usually save on how many Rare Candies as possible, grind to level up an pre-evolution Pokemon couple of times and than it'll evolved before League. Only exception being Volcarona & Hydrageon. Now Volcarona doesn't bother me since it and it's pre-evolution aren't found till after the main plot driven is done. You'll get Larvesta at an daycare center in an Egg, which I never raised. And u can explore more of the Relic Castle to captured an lvl. 70 Volcarona at your leisure and it was worth it. I mean let's face it. If u get Volcarona around the main plot, than it'll be an easy cake walk considered how powerful Volcarona can be. Only one I didn't bother with is Hydrageon because it's at lvl. 64 to evolevd. Now I know it's an Psudeo-Legendary and many Psudeo-Legendary Pokemon kinda has it's ridiculous high level to degree to evolved. But I do think Hydrageon went an little bit too overboard. But like Volcarona, if it did appeared around the main story, it would break the game sometimes concerning how good it was and this was before Gen. 6 had Fairy type to butchered it down an bit. But not by much since it has alot coverage. Now Black 2 & White 2 does kinda fixed this that u can capture the fully evolved ones like Mandibuzz & Braviary in an desert route that only appeared in certain days and u can get an lvl. 35 Volcarona on the other cave side at Driftvel City's PWT to reach the Relic Castle ( Though it's movepool does start off pretty poorly before becoming better. Be warn. ). And Zwelious replace Deino at the Victory Road route so if u wonna capture it and not worry about an Pokemon with an Hustle ability, than go for it. I'm one of those weirdos who doesn't mind this kind of change of challenge since those Pokemon that can take pretty long to evolved or get through an certain area are really that much good Pokemons. And yeah. Gen. 6 and onward made them alot easier with the addition of Exp Share and whatnot. But I don't care and there always optional.
2:12 because eugenics is fun. A lot more fun than spending hours looking for a different coloured spirte imo, cool ur chimchars a diffent colour, mine can use thunder punch and can run faster than 3 usain bolts
I still want a Pkmn game with 8 different selections per route: seasons & day/night variations. do you want a Fairy-only route? try Summer night. do you want to catch a wild Froslass? try hiking in the mountains during the winter nights. do you want a Flabebe? try spring day. do you want to catch a Gourgeist? maybe autumn day.
Maybe that is simply too much? I mean, that would turn any region with 100+ routes into one with 800+ thanks to all the variations. A game like that would easily take 5 years to make, minimum, and that is not an amount of time Pokemon can wait for a new entry in their main games.
@@toumabyakuya from where did you take 100+ routes? Pkmn games barely have 30 routes. did ypu play BW/B2W2? there you'd have the same 5 to 10 pkmn per route, but their % would change according to the season, so, for instance, Ice types would be either at 0% or 1% outside winter, while Flying types would be at 1% during winter. did you play HGSS? there you'd find Hoothoots in pretty much every route during night time & Pidgeys during daytime, while Rattata % would fluctuate depending if it was a Sentrer route or not. the examples I gave were special pkmn in special locations.
@@jgr7487 Yeah, I got confused with the numbers. However, the problem still stands and the problem is not the Wild Pokemon themselves, but designing how each route would look under each and every season is the problem and what would make the development of the game take too much time. However, programming all of those special events so Pokemon can vary this wildly might be yet another problem because this could make the games too heavy and it might also increase the quantity of time it takes to develop all this.
@@toumabyakuya Gen 2 already had different spreads for day & night time. some seasonal places in Unova work like they need an inexistant HM to get there, like clibing a hill or crossing a ditch. the hill could have needed Rock Climb, but it doesn't as you can climb in winter; the ditch could have had water to be surfed uppon, but it doesn't, so you cross it walking on leaves.
@@jgr7487 Thing is that all that changed in gen 2 was the color, nothing more. And in gen 5 they were still using sprites over 3D models, so it wouldn't be as complex.
My picks: Gen 2: Day and Night cycle and the day of the week Gen 3: Contests Gen 4: The Physical/Special split Gen 5: Seasons (Bring it back Game Freak!) Gen 6: Trainer Customisation, Super Training and Mega Evolution Gen 7: Regional Variants and Mantine Surfing Gen 8: DLC I guess?
I dream of the day when my eyes won't hurt from game footage that's stretched out of its original aspect ratio to fill the frame for no good reason in youtube videos
"You can just breed your own starters and auction them off on your own black market." You joke, but I did this. I would breed a load of Eggs, sort them and charge prices based on rarity: 5¢ for a common Pokémon, 10¢ for a intermediate rarity, and 25¢ for a rare one. Primary school was a trip for early Pokemon fans.
A great addition in Gen 2 that was broken on release was special Pokeballs. Having Pokeballs that give better catch rates when under certain parameters helped with filling the dex faster. Unfortunately for Gen 2 and HGSS, Kurt's balls suck. The only good ones nowadays are the Dusk, Net, and Repeat Balls.
You could have added gen 1. With pokemon yellow being gen 1 it added a following pikachu. I feel like this could have worked for something new it added which became a massive thing. Following pokemon. OR even could give it that it was the only one to follow the anime much closer. Thats a big 1
Id like to see a pokemon that changes form with its environment. Go to the mountains, sea, forest, beach and it will change forms. You would be able to lock that pokemon into that form by getting it to hold its signature item. It would evolve once it reaches a certain level, it's item would be consumed and the evolution would be locked into the type that goes along with the form.
12:16 and that’s what makes SwSh the best Pokémon games ever for me. The added features that make it so much easier to get into VGC are extremely overlooked imo. Unfortunately COVID hit at the worst possible time for VGC, as we haven’t been able to play in official tournaments much during the SwSh era because of it
@@pn2294 To some degree, yes. Breeding competitive PKMN and EV Training them up was already easy enough in Gen 6. Nothing REALLY needed to change, and while the changes are nice like being able to change a PKMN's Nature and I think give it its Hidden Ability, they certainly weren't worth the overall drop in quality Gen 8 as a whole had.
4:23 Actually, there were Pokémon in Gen 3 that could have one of two abilities. I know this because in Chuggaaconroy's let's play of Emerald, he dropped a Tentacool with Liquid Ooze for one with Clear Body.
There are a ton of Pokemon with multiple abilities in gen 3, i don't know why he has this misconception unless he literally never played gen 3. (Aron has sturdy or rockhead, ralts has trace or synchronize, magneton has magnet pull or sturdy, and the full list is quite long and covers many common pokemon) Gen 5 did add hidden abilities which are a rare in that special conditions must be met in order for a pokemon to have its hidden ability be the chosen ability slot to use. (Note that in BW2 all of N's pokemon you get from the grottos have their hidden abilities)
A would love if a pokemon game had both the camp feature from sw/sh and the after-battle system from sun and moon. I think curing them of ailments is busted, but remove that and I love it. I just like actually spending time with your pokemon.
XY definitely had the best and most accessible online features. It's just a shame that it's now behind a paywall for the switch. Also pokemon amie is the best form rather than refresh or the camping. I just think the battle bonuses could have been turned down a bit. A pokemon sticking it out was always very sweet in-game but I don't like not being able to play with my pokemon just because I'm worried battles become too easy
Never knew there was a difference in move type based on Pokémon type. I thought everything used the best stat and didn’t know special was tied to eeveelutions and dragon
